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This is a blog post about sharing business failures publicly, published on the Simple Analytics blog in 2019. It explores the tension between transparency and reputation risk, examining why a company chose to openly… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Why I share my failure at the risk of losing customers launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Trustpage▲246

    Building trust with customers just got easier

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    The three common reasons people start an online business

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    Share your failures and learn from mistakes

    2018 · seedproof.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn from other people's failures.

    2016 · rosenfeldmedia.com · its alternatives →

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    Why contact-to-cancel isn't as evil as you may think

    2017 · baremetrics.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover transparent numbers from open startups

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    PostSecret's founder on the value of sharing secrets.

    2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    Reduce churn using insights from customer meetings

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    Overlead▲146

    Here's the problem: I launched two products. I wrote blog posts. I posted on X, built in public. I tried running ads. And you know what actually got me customers? Replying to someone on Reddit who asked, "What's the best tool for this?" One reply. Three signups. I felt like an idiot for not doing it sooner. But here's the issue: I don't have time to refresh Reddit all day looking for these posts. I have products to build. Bugs to fix. Emails to answer. Life to live. So I built Overlead to do the searching for me. Overlead scans Reddit, Quora, and Hacker News (and many more to come) for…

    Feb 2026 · overlead.co · its alternatives →

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    Build a winning team that delivers

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Free product usage analytics for teams who care about growth

    2018 · paddle.com · its alternatives →

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    What is risk? How does it factor into client objections?

    2016 · makemoneyonline.exposed · its alternatives →

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    The backstory on why we stopped gating our content.

    2016 · drift.com · its alternatives →

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    Daily posting is just as important as actually sharing!

    2017 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

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    bummer▲77

    Let's fail to hide our failures

    2022 · bummer.me · its alternatives →

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    I've been working on this tool that lets you build a personal knowledge graph from articles, blog posts, podcasts, YouTube videos, and other content you find interesting online. You can safely forget everything and trust that Recall will resurface it when something new that is related comes up. Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback on how it could be improved! The original version of Recall was posted last year nov on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33425947 Since then I have pivoted to a browser extension.

    2023 · recall.wiki · its alternatives →

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    Why sharing is down on Instagram

    2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn the 3-stage growth cycle your blog needs to succeed

    2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    A platform to share startup success and failure stories

    2023 · failsnapr.softr.app · its alternatives →

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    Life, learning, and startups.

    2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    In IT careers

    2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →

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    Behind-the-Scenes Strategies of a 7-figure SaaS Business

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    Why entrepreneurs must surround themselves w/great people!

    2017 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

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    How to use better proof in your copy

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